The Death's Head Chess Club
A Novel
by John Donoghue
400 pages· 2015· ISBN 9780374135706
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A Nazi officer begins a post at Auschwitz where he learns of an imprisoned Jew, known as “the Watchmaker,” who is proving unbeatable at chess and begins a strange relationship and rivalry as they match wits across the gameboard.
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